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• ...that the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
• ...that Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent?
• ...that Richard de Southchurch, Sheriff of Essex, planned to attack London with burning cocks?
• ...that Rush Limbaugh was appointed an ambassador to India?
• ...that the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
• ...that Serge Voronoff's surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?

• Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks receives the first sentence from the Guantanamo military commission, and the first conviction in a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
• Following a provincial general election that saw no party win more than 39% of the seats, the Liberal Party retains power in Quebec (flag pictured) as the province's first minority government in 129 years.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the Mauritanian presidential election.

April 1: Palm Sunday in Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.

• 1318 - The Scottish re-took Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
• 1957 - Eight million viewers watched the television programme Panorama, prompting several of them to contact the BBC the following day and ask for instructions on how to grow spaghetti trees.
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed a law putting "the Surgeon General" on cigarette packages.
• 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
• 2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency was created under the provisions of a serious 2005 Act of the United Kingdom Parliament.

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